Hurricane Harvey Impacts on Water Quality and Microbial Communities in Houston, TX Waterbodies.

ABSTRACT: Extreme weather events can temporarily alter the structure of coastal systems and generate floodwaters that are contaminated with fecal indicator bacteria (FIB); however, every coastal system is unique, so identification of trends and commonalities in these episodic events is challenging. To improve our understanding of the resilience of coastal systems to the disturbance of extreme weather events, we monitored water quality, FIB at three stations within Clear Lake, an estuary between Houston and Galveston, and three stations in bayous that feed into the estuary. Water samples were collected immediately before and after Hurricane Harvey (HH) and then throughout the fall of 2017. FIB levels were monitored by culturing E. coli and Enterococci. Microbial community structure was

SUBMITTER: LaMontagne MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9239555 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature